Podcast Episodes

353 "Destroying Democracy, One Tweet At A Time"

- A Very Bad Week

- Best, Final

- Like, Literally the Holocaust

- F*ck You Money

- Narrative Malfunction

- Round the Water Cooler

- How America Got Stupid…

3 years, 10 months ago

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352 "Buzz Lightyear's Gay Conversion Adventure Camp"

- Take Em' To Church

- Okay, Groomer

- How "Lion King" Made Kmele Trans

- Troll Culture

- Mr. Cooper's Pronouns

- Elon's New Gig

- BLM House Flippin'

- The …

3 years, 11 months ago

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351 "The Problem with Jon Stewart, Will Smith, OJ Simpson, Sex Parties, and Madison Cawthorn"

Slappy White and the Hot TakesBirthdays Was the Worst Days: Six Years of the FifthHey Twitter World (The Ballad of OJ Simpson)Jon Stewart’s excruciat…

3 years, 11 months ago

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350 "Destroying Ukraine, Supreme Confirmation Theater, From Slava to Slavery"

On casualties, causation, and delusionIs there a risk of overcorrection in Ukraine?Sanctions, free trade, and nukesThe power of historical grievanceK…

3 years, 11 months ago

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349 "Moynihan Taps In From Ukraine"

Kmele got a new baby!

Welch is doing -- something.

And a disheveled, bleary-eyed Moynihan checks in from Europe -- where he's been bouncing between che…

3 years, 11 months ago

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348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisis"

Does the media have this conflict wrong?The privatization of protestEurope shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded mediaWait, did Matt Taibbi just say h…

4 years ago

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347 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Ukraine Crisis, The Enemy of My Enemy, National Conservatism"

With Kmele waiting for his son to arrive and moving into his new East Coast digs (or something), Welch and Moynihan again find a temporary replacemen…

4 years ago

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346 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "Total Recall, Escape from San Fransisco, Bans for Days"

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University

A Huge School Board Recall in San Francisco (With National Implications)A Proposed Ban …

4 years ago

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345 w/ Mary Katharine Ham "The Moronic Inferno b/w Hammer of the Gods"

Kmele's on a plane back East, where he shall remain and where the Fifth will increasingly ditch Zoom for in-person recordings. Yay. Filling in for Co…

4 years ago

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344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"

Our favorite Danish intellectual returns! After a three-plus year absence, Jacob Mchangama is back on the Fifth, this time promoting his amazing new …

4 years, 1 month ago

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